Environmental Assessment Completed

Buffalo Municipal Watershed Project

Bighorn National Forest Johnson, Wyoming Powder River Ranger District

Fire risk reduction and water quality maintenance or improvement activities in the Buffalo Municipal Watershed area, plus aspen restoration and other forest treatments to achieve Forest Plan objectives.

Location

Buffalo Municipal Watershed, including the national forest portion outside the Cloud Peak Wilderness in the Middle and South Forks of Clear Creek

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
06/01/2017
2
Objection Period Start
07/28/2018
3
Decision
10/2018 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
03/2019 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityHfra Title I: Wildland-Urban Interface; Hfra Title I: Municipal Watersheds; Ira - Inventoried Roadless Area Activities Requiring Chief's Approval; National Fire Plan - Other; Stewardship Contract, Consolidated Appropriations Resolution Of 2003
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Species Habitat Improvements; Noxious Weed Treatments; Roadless Area Management; Scenery Management; Timber Sales (Green); Watershed Improvements
Buffalo Municipal Watershed ProjectDecision Signed Date: 10/10/2018
ForestsBighorn National Forest
DistrictsPowder River Ranger District
Legal Land Descriptioncentered on T50N, R84W, S26
Fuels managementWatershed managementVegetation management (other than forest products)